{"id":2038,"date":"2017-05-09T20:57:52","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T20:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=2038"},"modified":"2017-05-09T20:57:52","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T20:57:52","slug":"turkey-u-s-at-odds-over-force-to-fight-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/05\/09\/turkey-u-s-at-odds-over-force-to-fight-isis\/","title":{"rendered":"TURKEY, U.S AT ODDS OVER FORCE TO FIGHT ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sourced : The Wall Street Journal<\/p>\n

By Raja Abdulrahim<\/span><\/p>\n

Turkey is assembling a contingent of thousands of Syrian Arab fighters who it insists should lead the offensive to retake Islamic State\u2019s stronghold of Raqqa instead of the Syrian Kurdish militia the U.S. favors, according to commanders of the force.<\/p>\n

The Arab force is central to tensions between Washington and Ankara, its North Atlantic Treaty Organization ally, over the campaign to unseat the extremist group from its de facto Syrian capital<\/a>. The dispute has hampered preparations for the offensive.<\/p>\n

The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces is led by the main Syrian Kurdish militia, the YPG,<\/a> which Washington sees as the ground force most capable of confronting Islamic State. U.S. officials say they don\u2019t expect the Turkish-backed Arab force to play a role in the fight for Raqqa, a predominantly Arab city.<\/p>\n

But Turkey considers the YPG a terrorist group. And commanders of the Arab force and their Turkish backers say their force\u2019s skills were honed in months of combat during which it helped clear Islamic State from a swath of northern Syria along the Turkish border<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Read more at : https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/turkey-u-s-at-odds-over-force-to-fight-isis-1494322202<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sourced : The Wall Street Journal By Raja Abdulrahim Turkey is assembling a contingent of thousands of Syrian Arab fighters who it insists should lead the offensive to retake Islamic State\u2019s stronghold of Raqqa instead of the Syrian Kurdish militia the U.S. favors, according to commanders of the force. The Arab force is central to… Continue reading TURKEY, U.S AT ODDS OVER FORCE TO FIGHT ISIS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2039,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038\/revisions\/2039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}